<p>Some of my friends and I will share music with USB hard drives every once in a while; in 10 or so minutes, we can share tens of thousands of songs, with no traces left whatsoever. Much better option IMO.</p>
<p>If you must download at college, I’d stick to direct downloads; torrents are much easier to track, and each torrent client requires you to upload while downloading.</p>
<p>Baseline: Don’t do it on their network. You can use utorrent, limewire, etc… But do it on a different network than the school. Many people do it, but just don’t get stupid. My suggestion: Download any music you want before you go to college and only download once or twice a month when you want some more new music</p>
<p>depends on the school. some have draconian IT policy and will catch you for p2p traffic. others almost encourage it by allowing internal trackers and dc++ networks. direct downloads are pretty foolproof, especially if you use a private forum or something rather than megadownload or shareminer.</p>
<p>They’ll definitely know. You’ll slow the system down and they can track which dorm room it is. A lot of universities don’t let you use Wireless routers because you can get around those trackings. Also, a lot of universities have the RIGHT to search your computer…at least in Canada (since you’re on THEIR property) if they have suspicion.</p>
<p>I just plan on having someone mail me mixes if I <em>really</em> need new music, or waiting until I go home. Or stalk up before hand. Sharing usbs with your friends is cool too.</p>
<p>I btw, do buy CDs occassionally…only if I like half the songs on the cd. I’m NOT going to pay $20+ for a CD that I like ONE song off if I don’t have an iTunes gift card.</p>
<p>The people at your actual college are more likely to know what is and isn’t allowed.</p>
<p>my problem is that i use limewire and for some reason, all of my songs are “shared” between my limewire and itunes so if i delete a song from limewire, it deletes from my itunes. so i dont want to delete limewire because it will essentially delete my itunes. does anyone have any advice as to how to get rid of limewire without losing my music? it is destroying my computer. if i put my music on a hard drive and then delete limewire and reupload it would that work?? any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>^
turn off folder synchronization, or whatever iTunes calls it these days. Also, for a quick fix, you could move the songs elsewhere, then uninstall limewhere.</p>
<p>Limewire? This isn’t the year 2000 anymore.</p>
<p>Using Limewire is asking for trouble.</p>
<p>If you want to torrent, I would suggest renting a [seedbox[/url</a>]. It’ll only cost you $5-10/month, and less if you share it with someone at your college.</p>
<p>There’s also the option of getting a Usenet subscription ([url=<a href=“http://www.giganews.com/]Giganews[/url”>http://www.giganews.com/]Giganews[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“http://www.astraweb.com/]Astraweb[/url”>http://www.astraweb.com/]Astraweb[/url</a>] are good choices, due to their [url=<a href=“http://www.slyck.com/story1858_Giganews_Hits_300_Days_Retention]high”>http://www.slyck.com/story1858_Giganews_Hits_300_Days_Retention]high</a> retention](<a href=“http://torrentfreak.com/10-reasons-why-you-need-a-seedbox-080715/]seedbox[/url”>Speed Up Your Torrent Downloads, Get a Seedbox * TorrentFreak)), in which case you can download directly and essentially nullify your chances of getting caught (since you don’t upload anything; Giganews also offers 256-bit SSL encryption for downloads on all premium plans and for $5 extra on all other plans).</p>
<p>Prices are quite reasonable with Usenet as well; for example, Astraweb offers both unlimited plans (such as $10/month) and pay-by-download plans (such as $10/25 GB with no time limit). While the $10/month plan is rate-limited to 1 Mbit/s, all other options have no speed limits. With a T1 college connection, you’ll be able to download pretty much anything you want very quickly.</p>
<p>bittorrent</p>
<p>Try Mojo:</p>
<p>[Mojo</a> - Deusty Designs](<a href=“http://deusty.com/software/windows.php]Mojo”>http://deusty.com/software/windows.php)</p>
<p>handy little app. get your friends to download it and you have access to each other’s itunes libraries. it’s like an IM client, but it downloads their itunes library file, parses it, and you get to browse their library, downloading songs whenever you want.</p>
<p>downloading songs and irrelevant stuff is bad in the college,
this is not the purpose, the college is providing you the internet for</p>
<p>listentoyoutube.com–it copies any song from a video for you</p>
<p>Buy a rapidshare premium and sign up on a forum that provides music/movies, obviously.</p>
<p>People at my school have gotten subpoenas and large fines for using torrents. Bad idea.</p>
<p>I download like a b1tch at my school and I haven’t received any warning yet. I have a rapidshare premium account so I don’t torrent.</p>
<p>I downloaded a lot while in a dorm. But then again, I didn’t use torrents. I used some Chinese website some kid told me about when I studied in Beijing. I don’t know if that makes a difference, though.</p>
<p>^The difference would be if it’s P2P or not. In general people view P2P as only used to distribute copyrighted material, and http/ftp downloads to be viewed as usaually legal.</p>
<p>Is there an amount of traffic that a college won’t bother you about in most colleges, or is any P2P uploading just marked. They can’t kill BitTorrent traffic/fine you without it being written somewhere and notifying you that it’s against some sort of usage policy. Comcast throttled BitTorrent upload and they just lost a class action lawsuit over it. I don’t even know that they can legally say no usage of BitTorrent, so then unless they recieved a complaint, they wouldn’t know you were downloading anything copyrighted. However, I wouldn’t be suprised to find out that there is usaually some cap on traffic (Comcast only allows 250GB/month), in which case you’d still have to watch out for downloading too heavily over http or ftp.</p>
<p>Regarding what hirako said,</p>
<p>Generally people only get seedboxes for private trackers, and just use it to buffer accounts. Constantly renting a seedbox is rather expensive (a $5/month would be something like 10GB on a 100Mbit server shared between 30 people - a worthless hastle). His link doesn’t mention OVH?</p>
<p>Usenet is a good option, but you have to pay every month for it. If you do get a usenet account and are going to use it at college DON’T get that stupid 1Mbit maxxed connection from astraweb. Your college has speeds FAR exceeding that. Pay the extra $5/month.</p>
<p>There are ways of using BitTorrent/uTorrent/etc and concealing your activity so that your school will not know you’re using it.</p>
<p>Of course, you’ll still be uploading/downloading so they will see the bandwith usage obviously, but that’s all.</p>
<p>Re Usenet:</p>
<p>Bad news this morning for paying Usenet customers… A federal court judge ruled in favor of the RIAA against Usenet for massive copyright violations. Damage awards expected to be announced in the next couple of weeks. </p>
<p>See the following articles from Ars technica:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“RIAA shifts legal battle to a new front, sues Usenet access provider | Ars Technica”>RIAA shifts legal battle to a new front, sues Usenet access provider | Ars Technica]RIAA</a> shifts legal battle to a new front, sues Usenet access provider - Ars Technica<a href=“Oct.%207.%202007”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit | Ars Technica”>Judge throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit | Ars Technica]Judge</a> throws book at Usenet.com in RIAA lawsuit - Ars Technica<a href=“July%201,%202009”>/url</a></p>
<p>If the settlement includes releasing customer account information for possible copyright violations, it’s really bad news for: “We know who you are! Regards, RIAA.”</p>